Three bills were recently introduced in Congress that some say are designed to provoke a war with Iran.
HR 2194 Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009 (cosponsored by Rob Bishop)
S. 908 Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009 (Since the show aired Robert Bennett has become a cosponsor)
HR 1985 Iran Diplomatic Enhancement Act of 2009 (cosponsored by Jason Chaffetz)
According to Antiwar.com
To begin with, the name affixed to this piece of legislative legerdemain is a prime example of congressional doublethink: will it really enhance diplomatic relations with Iran to impose draconian sanctions, the equivalent of an economic chokehold and a prelude to a military blockade? Hardly, and that is very far from its clear intent.
This is an excerpt from Gold: The Once and Future Money
On July 26, 1941, Roosevelt ordered a freezing of Japanese assets in the United States, which brought U.S.-Japanese trade to a halt. In September, an oil embargo was laid on Japan, essentially a death sentence for the Japanese economy.
In the following months, Japan’s ambassador to the United States made numerous concessions to the U.S. government in an effort to have the sanctions lifted. Prince Konoye told Roosevelt that he would offer to meet anywhere in the Pacific, and that if Roosevelt agreed to resume oil exports to Japan, the Japanese army would pull out of Indochina.
The Japanese government was shocked when Roosevelt refused – although the United States had apparently broken the Japanese diplomatic code and knew that its refusal would provoke the Japanese into military action.
After a meeting with Roosevelt on November 25, Secretary of War Henry Stimson wrote in his diary that the main question is “how we maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves”
I have heard two reasons for supporting these sanctions. The first reason is Iran seeks to obtain nuclear weapons, which Israel has had for 40 years as reported by The Washington Times. After seeing what happens to countries that don’t have nuclear weapons (Iraq), and countries that do have nuclear weapons (North Korea), it’s hard to blame them. Iran also has a long history of exposer to US intervention which is covered at the bottom of this page.
The second reason given for supporting sanctions is the claim Iran supports terrorism. This is odd since we should all have heard by now Osama bin Laden is a Saudi, and receives money from the Saudi’s. When are we going to put sanctions on Saudi Arabia?
Even if Iran is supporting terrorism, there is one country who has probably given the Mujahideen more money than any other. On my May 16th show I covered who that country is. I read two different articles on the history of the creation of the Mujahideen:
Zbigniew Brzezinski: How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen
To give you a taste of what is contained in this article:
Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows
"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
Brzezinski not long ago revealed that on July 3, 1979, unknown to the American public and Congress, President Jimmy Carter secretly authorized $500 million to create an international terrorist movement that would spread Islamic fundamentalism in Central Asia and “destabilize” the Soviet Union.
The CIA called this Operation Cyclone and in the following years poured $4 billion into setting up Islamic training schools in Pakistan (Taliban means “student”).
Multiple sources site the above listed information. Richard Stallman the father GNU Linux who I interviewed previously stated on his web site:
The Colder War , an article published in the London Mirror, lays out the parallels between today’s “War on Terrorism” and the Red Scare of the Cold War. It also shows how the US began in 1979, before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, to fund militant religious schools in Pakistan, the same schools that later produced the Taliban. (“Taliban” means “religious students”.)
The purpose of these schools was to lay a trap for the Soviet Union–a successful trap that contributed directly to its overthrow. Ending that murderous tyranny was a great achievement, but we could have achieved the same result by supporting people not quite so fanatic, if we had paid attention. In any case, that goal could hardly explain the US support for the Taliban in the 90s, after the Soviet Union had disappeared.
I would like everyone to take these article’s into account before we accuse other countries of supporting terrorism, and take actions to provoke a war.
In addition, I would like everyone to investigate the media coverage on Iran. In the past I read to you Paul Craig Roberts (former Reagan economist) DON’T TRUST U.S. MAINSTREAM NEWS: The Difficulty of Being an Informed American. Please read this article, if you haven’t already. Mr. Roberts suggests we need to seek news from outside the United States. I have listed the sites he recommends on the side bar.
I would like to ask you to take a look at this example of censorship from 60 Minutes
I would also like to ask listeners to study the history of US foreign intervention in the Middle East.
The site MrxfromPlanetX.com contains a documentary collection many of which focus on the Middle East. These two particular documentaries stand out:
1987 Bill Moyers PBS Secret Government: Constitution in Crisis
2003 John Pilger and Steve Connelly Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
We are talking about the potential death of thousands of people. Are we going to trust information provided by our government now when it has been relatively inaccurate in the past?
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